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My county achieved 25% of our population 18 and over and 75% of our population 65 and over fully vaccinated as of yesterday. Of course, we only have 38,000, but it's still an impressive percentage. We are vaccinating around 350 people a day (5 days a week), so by Memorial Day, we should have everyone vaccinated that wants to be (~67%).

Getting lake effect snow here. I'm sure Wrigley will also be a treat today too.

The whole NWS network is down, websites, NWSChat etc. How does the whole network crash?

James Spann's house was hit by a tornado today while he was on the air. Another met took over while he checked on his wife, who is okay, but their home suffered significant damage. He then came back on air and told his audience about it. https://tuscaloosathread.com/james-spanns-house-damaged-by-tornado-while-live-on-air/

I really like that smell. It is the smell of rain hitting dry soil. It's called petrichor.

Wind Advisory in effect from 8 AM-11 PM Eastern for Northern Indiana. Pretty long advisory. Gonna be great, gusts to 50, upper 30's, and driving rain. yee haw

I am the opposite of you. I've had a flu shot every year for the past 20+ years, and haven't had the flu since then. I had no problem whatsoever saying yes to the vaccine, but I'm much older than you and a former smoker. It was a no-brainer for me. Additionally, I feel much more comfortable going out in public now, although I still always wear a mask when I'm around others.

I look for Indiana to do it soon. Once you get down to 40-45, you begin running into the age of people who won't get the vaccine. Here is a graph showing the average percentages of the population who received a flu shot in the US between 2010 and 2020. I'm not saying that the numbers won't be different for the Covid vaccine, but I'm pretty sure that the younger age groups percentages will mimic the flu shot numbers, although they may be slightly higher due to the publicity. When the State sees the number of appointments begin to drop by age group, they will quickly take the step of opening it up, especially now that the supply chain has stabilized.

Not in our subforum, but it could get very interesting in the South and especially Mississippi later today. I will be virtual chasing.

Indiana dropped the minimum age to 45 yesterday. Vaccinations numbers are really ramping up locally.

Yeah, pretty dry period. We ruined it with 0.2" of sleet here yesterday (on 0.09" of liquid), which unfortunately counts as snow. The dry spell will be broken as we're looking at up to an inch of qpf Wednesday night and Thursday with mmmaybe a couple more stat padding tenths as the precip ends.

All the biting sarcasm aside, that is a reasonable, educated decision to not get vaccinated. In fact, during the check-in process (at least locally) each individual is asked if they have had any reactions to medications or vaccines in the past and advise of the greater risks to those that have had past problems. I think most of vitriol is aimed at those, and there are hundreds of thousands, whose only reason is political.

"I'm really excited about the cold, blustery, overrunning heavy rain on Wednesday night/Thursday" he emotes with sarcastic disdain.

We had a few tenths of sleet accumulation here. It caused me to have flashbacks from you know when.

France is in particularly bad shape. https://www.newsnationnow.com/health/coronavirus/paris-may-face-new-lockdown-as-icus-fill-up/

It will end up being just like the flu vaccine. Most younger people (under 30) I speak with don't bother with the shot. It's not until after the first time they get really sick from the flu that they decide to get vaccinated.

If the numbers keep trending like they have in Indiana, would lift the mask mandate on the Friday before the Memorial Day weekend.

Same here. For several days, models were spitting out around an inch of qpf for our area yesterday. Final total imby? The big T. lol

You're singing to the choir. Not only has it affected everyone's life, it also has made my job significantly more complicated. I really enjoy public safety/service and had been considering continuing to work past 65 in a couple of years, but I'm now looking forward to retirement. Here is my Facebook memory from one year ago today.

I actually spoke about it at length at a weather presentation I gave tonight. The White County courthouse in Monticello, IN

...DAILY RECORD HIGH SET AT SOUTH BEND AND TENTATIVE RECORD WARMEST LOW SET AT SBN FOR MARCH 10... AT 224 PM EST, THE TEMPERATURE AT THE SOUTH BEND AIRPORT ROSE TO 69 DEGREES, BREAKING THE OLD RECORD OF 67 SET IN 1902. THE LOW TEMPERATURE SO FAR TODAY HAS BEEN 53 AT 507 AM EST. THE CURRENT RECORD WARMEST LOW AT SOUTH BEND FOR MARCH 10TH IS 47 SET IN 2010. AT THIS TIME, THE TEMPERATURE IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN ABOVE 53 DEGREES THROUGH MIDNIGHT.

Insert Joe's "It's happening!" meme.

If you watch the video, he does give kudos to the Trump administration in assisting the pharmaceutical industry for getting the vaccine developed quickly, but he also pointed out that he then threw the ball into the states' court and the White House offered minimal help in distribution. It doesn't do any good to quickly develop a vaccine if you don't have a plan to get it into people's arms.

Being in emergency management and involved in some of the discussions on this topic, I'm seeing both sides here. Like Ricky, a lot of forecast mets do not like the change. However, I also know from first-hand experience that the public is woefully uneducated about NWS products and are easily confused about all of the products issued. Therefore, the decision was made to change to issuing only statements that describe public impact. And yes, they have researched this for quite some time and with implementation not occurring until 2024 "at the earliest", they are still proceeding very slowly with this change. An anecdote from one of the online discussions I was a part of was someone from NWS trying use some kind of term for the advisory replacement products. He kept wanting to say "statement", but also hesitated because that would imply a "special weather statement." By the end of the discussion, they were just referring it as the new product.

I have been involved with the local health department's vaccine point of distribution (a school gym.) Many people, especially the elderly, have cried tears of joy for the opportunity to be vaccinated. It's been paradoxical that this clinic has been created to fight a deadly pandemic, while being one of the happiest places I've been a part of for some time. Also, I want to comment on the posts in the last couple of days concerning masks. The government is in a no-win situation here. They are getting strong push-back from the anti-maskers, even though they are proven effective. The comment about California being proof that mandates don't work is correct, only because people refuse to follow it. On the other hand, if the government did not take a strong position on a mask-wearing, they would be castigated for not doing enough to stem the spread of the virus, i.e. not promoting a proven aid in reducing the spread.